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Very Quotes by H.G. Wells
- I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the…
- I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in…
- ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it…
- The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible…
- Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year…
- To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is…
- All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could…
- When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she…
- Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!
- Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and…
- By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.…
- But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
- Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest…
- If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I…
- A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He…
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